Star Fleets
A real-time space conquest strategy game. Send fleets between planets, capture factories and fortresses, outsmart adaptive rival empires and choose an upgrade after each of eight sectors.
Star Fleets is a real-time space conquest game about timing, numbers and nerve. Every planet builds ships on its own, bigger worlds faster. You select your planets, pick a target and send a share of the fleet across the map, and when it arrives it fights the garrison. Take the planet and it starts building for you. Lose track of your defences and a rival empire will take yours.
The rival empires are adaptive computer commanders. They estimate how many ships a world will hold when their fleet lands, gang up from several planets, rush to reinforce a world that is about to fall and punish you when your fleet has just left home. Neutral space is full of choices: factories build double, fortresses halve the damage of attackers, and rings of small rocks make cheap stepping stones. You fight eight sectors with a growing number of rivals, and after every cleared sector you pick one of three upgrades such as faster ships, stronger weapons, a fleet reserve or bigger garrisons. Faster conquests score more, and your furthest sector is saved.
If you like Galcon-style planet capture, territory control and thinking a few moves ahead, this is a quick and tense strategy game for desktop and phone. Tip: do not send everything at once. Keep a garrison at home, grab nearby factories early, and hit a rival the moment its fleet is in the air. Drag a box to multi-select, or use the ALL button on touch screens.
How to play
Click or tap your planets to select them, then click or tap a target to send a share of their ships (25, 50 or 100 percent). You can also drag from a planet to a target or drag a box to select several. A fleet fights the garrison on arrival and captures the planet if it wins. Factories build double, fortresses halve incoming damage. Eliminate every rival empire to clear a sector, then pick an upgrade. You lose if you have no planets and no fleets left.
Controls
- Click / tap a planet: Select your planet, then click a target to send ships
- Drag planet to target: Send ships directly
- Drag a box: Select several of your planets
- A: Select all your planets
- 1 / 2 / 3: Send 25% / 50% / 100% of the garrison
- ALL / SEND % / CLEAR buttons: Same actions on touch screens
- P / Esc: Pause
- M: Mute
Category: Strategy games
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